Selected Publications

Monograph

W.B. Yeats, World Literature and the Subject of Poetry,  Surrey, UK; Burlington VT, US: Ashgate Publishing, 2015

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

[co-authored with Richard Robinson] ‘The Violation of Style: Englishness in Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose Novels’, Textual Practice, Abingdon: Routledge,  forthcoming

‘Mr Yeats’s Treacherous Instinct of Adaptability: Subjectivity, Culture, and Theatrical Space’ Nordic Irish Studies, forthcoming

‘Poetry in the Modern State: the example of W.B. Yeats’s ‘Late Style’ and ‘New Fanaticism’’, New Literary History 45.3, Maryland, US: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014: pp 483-505

[co-authored with Julie Walsh] ‘Tragedy and Transference in D.M. Thomas’s The White Hotel’, Psychoanalysis and History 15.1, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013: pp 69-89

‘“Dark Cognition”: W.B. Yeats, J.G. Herder and the Imperfection of Tradition’, Irish Studies Review 20.1, Abington, UK: Routledge, 2012: pp 299-321

Book Chapters

“With a Schwärmerei that barely escaped self-parody’: Tom MacIntyre’s short stories’, Writing from the Margins: The Aesthetics of Disruption in the Irish Short Story, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014

‘The Ship and the Gun: the Perversity of neo-Victorian Belfast in Glenn Patterson’s The Mill for Grinding Old People Young’, Neo-Victorian Studies Series, Vol.4,  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014.

‘From Dignity to Beauty: Aesthetics, Revolution and the Problem of Reception in “Easter 1916”’, The Politics of Irish Writing. Ed. Jenčová, K. et al., Prague: Charles University, 2010: pp 89-99

Contact

Environments of Care, 1912-22 Barry Sheils
IRC Postdoctoral Fellow
School of English, Drama and Film
University College Dublin
barry.sheils@ucd.ie